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A collection of items related to T.E. Lawrence on film and on stageComprising:
i) [Lowell Thomas.] 16mm filmreel in a tin case with Kodak Cinegraph label, "With Lawrence in Arabia. Col. T.E. Lawrence in his Arabian campaign. (No. 1509) With Allenby in Palestine. Scenes of Allenby's great campaign. (No. 1510)", dated 1927 in ink
THE FOOTAGE THAT HELPED CREATE A LEGEND. Lowell Thomas used his footage of Lawrence as the basis of a hugely successful series of lectures on Lawrence, subsequently developed into a book, that cemented the legend of "Lawrence of Arabia". This extraordinary footage captures his ship being loaded and unloaded with men, animals, and cargo; Lawrence's meeting with the Emir Feisal; and his Arabian troops preparing for an attack. General Edmund Allenby, the commander of the cavalry of the British Expeditionary Force, is shown here with his army and camel corps.
ii) Terence Rattigan. Lawrence of Arabia, screenplay, uncorrected mimeographed typescript, 115 pages, clipped into a folder of J. Arthur Rank Productions Ltd with a typescript label ("Final Shooting Script") dated 25 November 1957, covers frayed and torn, but internally very clean
A SCARCE ARTEFACT FROM THE CONVOLUTED HISTORY OF THE MAKING OF THE FILM. As early as 1926, Lawrence himself was trying to sell the rights as a way of offsetting the costs of printing Seven Pillars. In 1934, Alexander Korda came close to making the film with Leslie Howard in the title role, but was thwarted by Lawrence who decided that nothing should be done until after his death. Following Lawrence's death, Korda tried (and failed) multiple times to get the project off the ground. David Lean then took on the project and started to work with Terence Rattigan on the script. However, Lean came into conflict with Lawrence's brother who was worried about references to homosexuality, and Lean backed out of the project. David Lean did, of course, eventually complete his masterpiece, but not with a script by Rattigan. (The final screenplay was instead written by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson).
iii-iv) Terence Rattigan. Ross. A Dramatic Portrait. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1960; New York: Random House, 1962
Two copies, FIRST UK AND US EDITIONS, 2 volumes, 8vo, each inscribed by Rattigan to his secretary ("To Mary with much love and more than usual gratitude, Terry. November 1960", and "For Mary, who helped in this, as she has helped in all, with love and thanks. Terry. August 1962"), original cloth and cloth backed boards with dust wrappers, very good copies
After Rattigan's involvement in the Lawrence of Arabia film was curtailed, he lost no time in rewriting his script as what became the successful stage play Ross, starring Alex Guinness. The first UK edition has a photograph of Guinness as Lawrence on the dust-wrapper. Guinness later played Prince Faisal in the David Lean film.